hep-th/9112054 [91/92] Phys. Suppl. Lett. Reasonably Effective 2: Devils Advocate Physics Today 60N5 8-9 (2007). Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 for discoveries regarding the strong forcethe nuclear force that binds together quarks (the smallest building blocks of matter) and holds together the nucleus of the atom. 4 457. Rev. Item 30 introduced the Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling, which plays a central role in the anticipated phenomenology of that particle. B404 (1993) 577. hep-ph/9303281 [93/16] The Interactions and Excitations of Nonabelian Vortices (with M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman and J. March-Russell), Phys. I discovered the possibility of fractional statstics for myself, and put it in the context of gauge theories, in the first three items listed below. hep-th/9706014 [97-48] Axions and Family Symmetry Breaking, Phys. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. Mod. This [asymptotic freedom] is a phenomenon whereby the building blocks which make up the nucleus of an atom 'quarks' behave as free particles when they are close together, but become more strongly attracted to each other as the distance between them increases. The models of item 449 involve Lagrangians whose corresponding Hamiltonians are multivalued functions of momentum. 43. Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene (with Pouyan Ghaemi) (August, 2007) cond.-mat:supr-con/0709.2626 v2 (September 2011) Phys. Mai 1951) ist ein amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker , Mathematiker und Nobelpreistrger . 249. When quarks were brought very close together, the force was so weak that the quarks acted almost as if they were free particles not bound together by any force. M. Shifman77-93 (World Scientific, 2004). Han r professor vid Massachusetts Institute of Technology i USA. College of Liberal Arts & Science,Arizona State University, Goldwater Building, 650 E. Tyler Mall, RM 516 Tempe AZ 85287, Arizona State University,Goldwater Building, 2017Frank Wilczek, All Rights Reserved, Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. Frank Wilczek 7 309. Heuristic Principle for Quantized Hall States (with M. Greiter), Mod. [14], Wilczek was raised Catholic but later "lost faith in conventional religion"[1] although he told Scientific American that religion "had meant a lot to me as a teenager". B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] Neutralino Dark Matter in Focus Point Supersymmetry (with J. Feng and K. Matchev) Phys. 203. 67, 1975 (1991). B380, 447 (1992). 419. In Item 177 Holzhey and I discussed a class of dilaton black holes that behave much like elementary particles; it later developed, that in certain cases these solutions in fact do correspond to elementary objects in string theory. 1 Quotes. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. 263. In the store he noticed a brand of laundry detergent called "Axion." Countless people had probably seen and used the product, but the precocious Wilczek was almost certainly the first to think it might offer a good name for an elementary particle. Phys. The jury is still out. Quantum Numbers of Textured Hall Effect Quasiparticles (with C. Nayak), Phys. B 455, 493, (1995). D64 074017 (2001). In itself it is a clever paper, I think, but it was rapidly overtaken by the explosive development of the field. Einstein hoped to construct a unified field theory, but didn't get very far. [91/17] Phys. hep-th/9710135 [97/116] It gives us an analytically tractable realization of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in a regime of definite physical interest. Frank Wilczek [5.18.21] It came to me, viscerally, that the intricate calculations I'd done using pen and paper (and wastebasket) might somehow describe this entirely different realm of existencenamely, a physical world of particles, tracks, and electronic signals, created by the kind of machinery I was looking at. by. About Frank Wilczek: From wikipedia: Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. D24, 1681 (1981). - See more. 8 Selected Publications 424. After a year and a half, he transferred from mathematics to physics, with David Gross as his thesis advisor. This is a cluster of papers concerned with the quantum theory of black holes. Just beautiful. Rev. ng nhn bng C nhn Khoa hc v Ton hc ti i hc Chicago nm 1970, . So let me answer each of them separately. "Pure" particle physics: connections between theoretical ideas and observable phenomena; This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 04:00. Since 2002, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the . J. of Mod. 56, 893 (1986). Conference Summary, in The Very Early Universe, eds. Tegmark) Phys. Geometric Phase in Dynamics He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), distinguished professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and full professor at Stockholm University. Rev. Statistical Transmutation, Anyons, and Chern-Simons Theory Dual Dilaton Dyons (with A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. 154. Low Energy Manifestations of Heavy Particles: Application to Neutral Current (with J. Collins and A. Zee), Phys. He later served on the faculty at Princeton (197481) and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (198088). What is Quantum Theory?, Physics Today , 53N6 11-12, (2000) [MIT-CTP-3159]. Quantum Chromodynamics: Lifestyles of the small and simple, Nature Physics 3 N6 375-6 (June, 2007) [MIT-CTP 3848]. 277. . This suggestion stimulated a lot of activity, both theoretical and experimental. Remarks on the Chiral Phase Transition in Chromodynamics (with R. Pisarski), Phys. The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. D30, 2194 (1984). [38], Although most experimental searches for dark matter candidates have targeted WIMPs, there have also been many attempts to detect axions. Rev. I anticipate that in future work many more will be. Longing for the Harmonies [a book] W.W. Norton (January, 1988). condmat/ 9605145 [96/52] 261. 96 151302 (2006). degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Ive classified and annotated the items listed in this subsection in a separate file. 279. 106 (2011) 050404 [MIT-CTP 4110]. Wilczek became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. Analysis and Synthesis 3: Cosmic Groundwork Physics Today 56N10 10-11 (2003). G. Farmelo 102-130 (Granta, 2002). D12, 106 (1975). [2]He is currently the Herman Feshbach . (1 July 1999). Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl author, (Princeton University Press, 2008) [MIT-CTP 4005] Lett. hep-th/9801184 [97-142] [3], Wilczek, along with David Gross and H.David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". The following version is less complete, but better organized. My Wizard, Reference Frame Column, Physics Today 61 N1[MIT-CTP 3866] (2008). B 411, 112-116, (1997). 400. Items 295 and 384 explore focus point supersymmetry, a promising proposal for the pattern of SUSY breaking, while item 299 is a broader discussion of the implications of low-energy supersymmetry for dark matter searches. Neutrino Deficit Challenges Conservation Laws, Nature 391, 123 (8 Jan. 1998). Lett. 55, 122 (1985). Lett. In 1973, while a graduate student working with David Gross at Princeton University, Wilczek (together with Gross) discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color charge) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles. The U(1) Problem: Instanton, Axions, and Familons, in How Far Are We from the Gauge Forces, ed. 18 And youre glue Nature 400, 21-23. Lett. Hes worked on an unusually wide variety of topics, ranging across condensed matter physics, astrophysics and particle physics. B566 33-91(2000). Suppl. 68, 2567 (1992). I took the opportunity to talk about the wide-ranging scientific impact of our work, which extends far beyond the profound but esoteric paradoxes that provoked it. B482 388-399 (2000). Wilczek won the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003. 171, and 218 are applications of the general philosophy mentioned in the previous Section to the quantum Hall effect context. . "[21], Wilczek is also a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organization which advocates for democratic reform in the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system. 397. 282 What QCD Tells Us About Nature - and Why We Should Listen Nucl. Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks (with A. Selem) Ringberg 2005 ed. B 516, 704-718 (1998). Whence the Force of F=ma? D11, 1919 (1975). B 423, 337-347, (1998). 167. hep-th/9201059 [91/64] 440. Suggested New Modes in Supersymmetric Proton Decay, (with K.S. Journal Club: Promise that Anyon Particles Hold for Quantum Computing Excites the Physicist Who Named Them Nature 437 299 (2005). 94. Frank Wilczek 23 [91/32] Anticipating a New Golden Age, Invited Lecture at SUSY 07, Karlsruhe, SUSY 07 Proceedings, Perspectives on LHC Physics ed. In item 285 we give some substance to the old heuristic idea that Hawking radiation can be regarded as spontaneous pair creation by a gravitational field. Riemann-Einstein Structure from Volume and Gauge Symmetry, Phys. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. 193. Lett. A crack in the Standard Model?, Nature Vol. Item 94 also contains a calculation of the virial coefficient for the ideal anyon gas; this was perhaps the first physical con- sequence of anyon statistics to be cleanly identified. Quantum Field Theory, in the American Physical Society Centenary issue of Rev. Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter: In this work the full power of color-flavor locking became apparent. B. Carr (Cambridge Univer- sity Press), based in part on talk given at the Anthropic Workskop, Jun 2001 (2004) hep- ph/0408167 [MIT-CTP-3526]. Also in this paper we provided the foundational analysis of branching modes. [90/35] 254. 272. Ive had some fun dirtying my hands with this. Item 459 is a review and deep meditation on the mass concept in modern physics. Frank Wilczek 27 Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. 73, (1994) 2740. cond-mat/9405017 [94/25] 104. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. 371. Superconductivity from Perturbative One-Gluon Exchange in High Density Quark Mat- ter (with T. Scha efer) Phys. Wilczek went to Princeton as a mathematics graduate student. Item 274 was prepared as a special News and Views Feature for Nature. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. The most dramatic of these, that protons viewed at ever higher resolution would appear more and more as field energy (soft glue), was only clearly verified at HERA twenty years later. These are six papers I prepared for special occasions. 244. When the distance between two quarks increased, however, the force became greateran effect analogous to the stretching of a rubber band. Nucl. Rev. Item 95 anticipates the concept of domain wall fermions, which has since become quite popular in high energy theory, in a concrete condensed matter context. Positivity Conditions on SU(5) Potentials (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. Phys. Lett. It is also demonstrated, in item 457, that the sorts of models studied in 449 can arise naturally from conventional, widely used quantum field theories. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Lett 75 748 (1995). B. Bederson, (Springer-Verlag, New York), (1999). 405. 298 QCD Made Simple Physics Today, 53N8 22-28 (2000). In this state, whose analysis was also pioneered by Moore and Read, traditional statistical transmutation and BCS pairing are present simultaneously. Discrete Quantum Hair on Black Holes and the Nonabelian Aharanov-Bohm Effect, (with M. Alford and J. March-Russell), Nucl. From Electronics to Anyonics Physics World 19 22 (2006). 202. Rev. Some Applications of a Simple Stationary Line Element for the Schwarzschild Geom- etry, (with P. Kraus), Mod. ng c nui dy theo o Thin Cha gio. Callan, R.L. Possible Form of Vacuum Deformation by Heavy Particles (with R. MacKenzie and A. Zee), Phys. One co-author (Wen) went on to generalize this idea under the rubric topological order, which has grow into a cottage industry. Phys. Phys. Nature 443 636 (2006). The 123 Sigma rule extends the well-known 68-95-99.7 rulewhich can explained as follows:: 1 sigma is 1 standard deviation. in mathematics (1972) and a Ph.D. in physics (1974). Quite a few papers straddle the boundary between categories, but I always chose a unique classification. Unification of Couplings, (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Physics Today 44, Octo- ber 1991, p.25. 95. Two Applications of Axion Electrodynamics, Phys. 385 General Issues Connecting Flavor Symmetry and Supersymmetry (with E. Bilgin, B. Patt, and D. Tucker-Smith) Phys. Backyard Exotica Nature 404 452-453 (2000). A 13, 863, (1998); also in Magazine of Physics, Science & Ideas Vol. Lett. Magnetic Flux, Angular Momentum, and Statistics, Phys. Rev. Cosmic Molasses for Particle Masses, New Scientist, (April 1999). Rev. Lett. Field Corrections to Induced Statistics (with A. Goldhaber, R. MacKenzie), Mod. Supersymmetric Unified Models (with S. Dimopoulos), in The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions, ed. In Item 90 Zee and I showed how baby Skyrmions, appearing in models of magnets, could be quantized as anyons. 421. Phys. Frank Anthony Wilczek (/ w l t k /; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), distinguished . 57, 514 (1989). 229. Wen), Phys. As a matter of principle I have tried in these pieces to take on subjects that are under-reported, other things being equal. 358. Rev. Spinoza, Beethoven, Walt Whitman, Einstein good company! In Item 425, I made a case for a very specific exotic (tetraquark) hadron. Rev. I discuss the general principles underlying quantum field theory, and attempt to identify its most profound consequences. Rev. Rev. [93/50] Lett. 130. 285. in Item 94, and spelled out so even the blind can see it in Item 129. B328, 140 (1989). of Mod. Anomalies, Hawking Radiation and Regularity in Rotating Black Holes (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. hep-th/9610252 [96-108] A. Zichichi (Plenum, 1985). Peculiar Spin and Statistics in 2+1 Dimensions (with R. MacKenzie), Int. 328. He played a central part in formulating and establishing theoretical physics' two standard models the standard model of fundamental interactions and the standard model of cosmology. 388. Rev. 460. Lett. Lett. Rev. Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics 2004 Nobel Laureate Known for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and more. In the 1970s, Frank Wilczek of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., deduced how the nuclei of atoms stay together, one of those rare "knowing the mind of God" discoveries. It leads naturally into item 350, my lecture on receipt of the European Physics Society prize for high energy physics. Wilczek holds the Herman Feshbach Professorship of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. [91/63] Supersymmetric Phenomenology: Special Topics Items 253 and 269 continue the discussion of proton decay in unified models with low-energy supersymmetry. Cosmic Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter, Scientific American, December 1980, p. 82. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Rev. Nobel Lecture and Biography. In Items Items 229 and 241 partially elucidate the new, nonabelian statistics that arises for the paired Hall (or Pfaffian) state. B450, 325-331, (1999). Reheating an Inflationary Universe (with A. Aubrecht, P. Steinhart and M. Turner) Phys. Lett. Phys. Two of his pieces have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2003, 2005). B3, 1001 (1989). 199. (See also the following group of papers.) A Relationship Between Hawking Radiation and Gravitational Anomalies (with S. Robinson) Phys. 55. Abstract. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. Extremely interesting possibilities, as yet in- sufficiently explored, arise in theories with several Chern-Simons fields, particularly when several distinct two-dimensional planes are involved. 147. Lett. 31. Professor Wilczek has been a Sloan Foundation Fellow (1975-77) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1982-87). 48, 1144 (1982). Global Structure of Evaporating Black Holes (with M. Parikh), Phys. 269.Fermionmasses,neutrinooscillations,andprotondecayinthelightofSuperKamiokande (with K.S. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. 404. cond- mat/9609094 [96/93] Adiabatic Methods in Field Theory, in TASI Lectures in Elementary Particle Physics, ed. 453. 218. Operator Analysis of Nucleon Decay (with A. Zee), Phys. 312. In Item 170 we demonstrate the internal inconsistency of a purely statistical treatment of near-extremal holes. Wilczek, considered one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists, is the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT. 112. 48, 1146 (1982). B46, 9586, (1992). For more information on how to customize the content, look, and feel of your site please see the help section at the Drupal Cloud Website. Lett., 80, 4851, (1998). In 2004 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in 2005 the King Faisal Prize. On Anyon Superconductivity, (with Y-H. Chen, E. Witten and B. Halperin), Intl. Physics Today 55N8 10-11 (2002). 280. 344. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. All this preceded by several months the Strominger-Vafa breakthrough treatment using Dbranes. B95, 222 (1980). It also has more-or-less obvious analogues for many other fields that appear in hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model. 143. Rev. Finally item 301 is an extensive review of many aspects of QCD at high temperature and/or high density. As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton . Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". Glashow, H.D. Rev. The theory, which was independently discovered by H. David Politzer, was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics. Item 55 was an early use of higher-dimensional spinor representations, when this was considered quite adventurous. The Worlds Numerical Recipe Daedalus 131-1 142-147 (2001). In items 395 and 399 the analysis was successfully extended to charged and rotating black holes. Remarks on Dyons, Phys. QCD: Diquarks The attractive force between quarks plays a central role in the theory of QCD at high density. D8, 3633 (1973). [45][47], In 2012 he proposed the idea of a time crystal. Letts. Lett. Geometric and Renormalized Entropy in Conformal Field Theory, (with C. Holzhey and F. Larsen), Nucl. hep-ph/9804403 [98-29] Phys. Forward to reprinting of Radioactive Transformations by Ernest Rutherford (Yale Uni- versity Press) pp. 100. cond-mat/9501052 [94/109] On Absolute Units 1: Choices Physics Today 58N10 12-13 (2005). That portal idea, elaborated in item 401, has become quite influential. Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect (with D. Arovas and J.R. Schrieffer), Phys. Rev. Rev. Supersymmetric Phenomenology: Foundational Papers 36. 142. B70, 418 (1977). Lett. cond-mat/9501050 [94/108] Phys. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Wilczek, The Nobel Foundation - Autobiography of Frank Wilczek. 19. Renormalization Group Approach to Low Temperature Properties of a Non-Fermi Liq- uid Metal, (with C. Nayak), Nucl. He is also an avid, though mediocre, musician. He came to ASU from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. Lett. D30, 130 (1984). 157. Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. Frank Wilczek 3 286. Review of Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC (with W. Busza, R. Jaffe, and J. Sandweiss) Rev. 430. In 1982, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Rev. Phys. 425.QCDMeetsBCSMeetsQQ ,QCDDownUnder2[MIT-CTP3945](January2008). He was the co-recipient of the 2003 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. Frank Anthony Wilczek (1951-05-15) May 15, 1951(age 71) Mineola, New York, U.S. Phys. 180. Rev. Rev. Frank Anthony Wilczek ( born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. 88 161102 (2001). 265. Wilczek grew up in New York City and attended public school in Queens, graduating from high school in two years. He is also an avid, though mediocre, musician. Reasonably Effective 1: Deconstructing a Miracle Physics Today 59N11 8-9 (2006). Phys. Phys. Turner), Phys. 2n Quasihole States Realize 2n1-Dimensional Spinor Braiding Statistics in Paired Quantum Hall States (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. I accepted with pleasure, worked hard on them, and am proud of the results. Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. M. Shifman 2016-2151 (World Scientific, 2001). 119. Item 102 is of some methodological interest; it identifies a limit in which heavy particles can be show to spontaneously form semi-classical bags, substantially deforming the vacuum around themselves. Lett. Phys. Jour. Phys. (Aug. 2012). 129. A3, 2827 (1988). Selected Publications 115. [7], Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. D60 1140331-1140337 (1999). 92. 159. 233. B537, 443-458, (1999). 416. Phys. [35][36] Wilczek named this new hypothetical particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent,[37] while Weinberg called it "Higglet". Infrared Behavior at Negative Curvature (with C. Callan), Nucl. The use of such spinors remains, in my opinion, a promising possible approach to the family problem. Lett. Research Areas High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory (617) 253-0284 wilczek@mit.edu Office: 6-301 Saltatory Relaxation of the Cosmological Term in String Theory (with J. Feng, J. March-Russell, and S. Sethi) Nucl. The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle. Statistical Mechanics of Anyons (with D. Arovas, J.R. Schrieffer and A. Zee), Nucl. [91/33] He was raised Catholic.. Rev. We discovered the central dynamical feature unique to non-abelian gauge theories, that their effective strength diminishes to zero at short distances or high energy due to quantum antiscreening of charge (asymptotic freedom). 392. 361. Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors (with B. Patt) hep-ph/0605188 (2006). Lett. It also contains a discussion of the theoretical background and alternatives that holds up well today. To preserve sanity, the numbering of items is the same as in the complete bibliogra- phy. Lett. After an injection of ideas from Laughlin, the analysis of many-body problems using statistical transmu- tation became quite sophisticated; this is reflected in the papers Items 142, 143, 154, and the book Item 155. B358, 447 (1991). Interference Effects in Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. When only 21 years old and a graduate student at Princeton University, in work with David Gross he defined the properties of color gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. During his last year as a math major at Chicago, he attended a course taught by Peter Freund on group theory in physics, which Wilczek later described as being "basically particle physics", and very influential:[6]. A. Zichichi (Plenum, New York, 1983). Entanglement (Geometric) Entropy Item 194 defined the entanglement (originally geometric) entropy in quantum field theory, and computed for an interval in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory. ( Frank Wilczek, . Finally, Item 279 was prepared for a special supplement issue of Nature, also designed to celebrate the century in physics. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. 137. States of Anyon Matter, Intl. In some cases, an amendment to the Heisenberg commutation relations is required. 176. Elementary Examples of Baryon Number Generation (with D. Toussaint), Phys. 38 (2010) pp. 171. [9][10], He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and membership in Phi Beta Kappa[11] at the University of Chicago in 1970. Black Holes Frank Wilczek, (born May 15, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.), American physicist who, with David J. Lett. Turner), Nucl. The Universe is a Strange Place Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, Interna- tional Symposium XXII 447-461 (2005). B287, 402 (1987). In Item 271 we made the case that there need be no phase transition between this color-flavor locked phase and 3-flavor nuclear matter, and in Item 276 we made went deeper into the analytic theory, and also considered more flavors. B349, 414 (1991). Rev. An extremely intriguing possibility is that the 2-flavor color superconducting phase goes over into ordinary nuclear matter with no phase transition. 173. We took our job very seriously and concluded, correctly, that no substantial danger was posed. 345. 58, 2051 (1987). Rev. 33. cond-mat/9512061 [95/104] 25, No. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary The full bibliography has grown by accretion. Kingsley, S.B. 163. 52, 1524 (1984). B 9, 3189, (1995). Author Frank Wilczek has been playing with unified visions of nature since, as a 21 year-old physics grad student, he did work that won him the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. 251. The Social Benefit of High-Energy Physics Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, Sup- plement: Elementary Particle Physics (2002). 86 3492-3495 (2001). Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. [91/11] Item 416 is, in my opinion, a significant elucidation of the concept fundamental constant. Diquarks as Inspiration and as Objects From Fields to Strings: Kogan Memorial v. 1 ed. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Lett. Composites formed from charged particles and vortices in (2+1)-dimensional models, or flux tubes in three-dimensional models, can have any (fractional) angular momentum. 302. Phys. 248. Decay of Heavy Vector Mesons into Higgs Particles, Phys. PHYSICIST Frank A. Wilczek won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for work he did in his 20s on a theoretical advance known as quantum chromodynamics. 267. Wilczek was a finalist in 1967 and ultimately won fourth place, based on a mathematical project involving group theory. Lett. The possibility of ordering in imaginary time is also discussed. He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry. Phys. Liberating Quarks and Gluons, Nature, 391 , 330-331, (22 Jan. 1998). A Long View of Particle Physics, Solvay Conference Proceedings The Theory of the Quantum World ed. In 1977, Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn postulated a solution to the strong CP problem, the PecceiQuinn mechanism. 43, 1059 (1979). 22 Selected Publications Lett. If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. D59, 054502, (1999). Frank Wilczek 21 399. Rev. Item 244 is, I think, a sleeper. B3, 903 (1989). Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity,. Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). Populated Domain Walls (with C. Nayak), Phys. 3: Cultural Diversity Physics Today 58N7 10-11 (2004). Some Calculable Contributions to Entanglement Entropy, (with M. Hertzberg), (July 2010) hep-th1007.0993 Phys. Wilczek has appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, where Penn referred to him as "the smartest person [they have] ever had on the show". Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including Longing for the Harmonies (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of Absolute Zero Gravity (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. Abiding interests include: Professor Frank Wilczek is considered one of the worlds most eminent theoretical physicists. Items 106 and 109 present ideas for neutrino and dark matter detection, that have influenced experimental work. Frank Wilczek Mistake, Profound, Progress Frank Wilczek (2009). Lett. hep-ph/9712307 [97/136] Phys. Items 36 and 37 contain especially original uses of QCD. Foundation - Autobiography of frank Wilczek `` for the New, Nonabelian Statistics that arises the... Generalize this idea under the rubric topological order, which was independently discovered by H. Politzer... A special supplement issue of Nature, 391, 330-331, ( with Dimopoulos! 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